Keynote Speaker and Best-selling Author
Three weeks prior to Barbara Rubel giving birth to triplets, her father, a retired NYC Police Officer, died by suicide. Her mother was one of the first New York City female officers, and their story was featured in the Emmy award winning documentary, Fatal Mistakes: Families Shattered by Suicide, narrated by Mariette Hartley. Barbara is a champion for professional well-being in victim services, and has pioneered a unique approach to addressing traumatic grief informed care and vicarious trauma by bringing a deep understanding of thanatology and personal resilience to her work.

Live and Virtual Keynotes, Interactive Breakouts, and Customized Trainings Griefwork Center, Inc.

Are you Seeking a Speaker for Your Next Event on Lessening the Impact of Employee Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, or Vicarious Trauma?

• As a subject matter expert and nationally recognized keynote speaker, I motivate victim service providers to build resilience, create work-life balance, and manage workplace chronic stressors.
• As a speaker and trainer who has presented to over 1,000 groups since 1991, including corporations, state/national associations and non-profit organizations, I offer work-life balance and employee wellbeing strategies based on my 8 pillar FABULOUS Framework. Because employees are grieving, I also offer programs on lost productivity and performance. 
• I am a Newsweek Expert Forum Member, Board-Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, Diplomate with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, BS in psychology, MA degree in community health, with a concentration in thanatology.
  

AUTHOR

• But I Didn’t Say Goodbye: Helping Families After a Suicide (3rd ed.). (2020).
• Loss, Grief, and Bereavement: Helping Individuals Cope (4th ed.) 30-hr. CE course for Nurses
• COVID-19 Loss, Grief, and Bereavement (2020), 2-hour CE course
• Co-author, Dept. of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime Training Curriculum, Compassion Fatigue
• Contributing writer: Thin Threads, Fresh Grief, Coaching for Results: Expert Advice from 25 Top International Coaches, and Keys to a Good Life.

MOST REQUESTED TOPICS

• Palette of Grief®: Traumatic Grief Informed Care
• Mitigating Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma
• Achieving Operational Success: Proven Strategies to Increase Resilience, Retention, and Productivity When Employee are Burned Out

WHERE YOU HAVE SEEN BARBARA
Newsweek, Health magazine, Family Circle, Hope4Med Podcast, Healing Place, Results Radio, Bear Psychology, Hope Illuminated, Positivity Strategist, Transformation for Success, WHAM 1180, M.P.I. Radio by James Allen, Sanity Project, Shape magazine, Jennings Wire, CYACYL, WOR, NY 710, FOX Business, Open to Hope TV, TODAY, and others.

KEYWORDS
Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, Suicide, Complicated Grief, Work-Life Balance, Resilience

• https://about.me/barbararubel

A few requestors of my programs:

• Alliance for Child Welfare Excellence
• Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance (COVA)
• Cook County Sheriff’s Office, Bureau of Strategic Operations
• Florida Crime Victim Resource Network
• Florida State Attorney Office 13th Judicial Circuit
• FBI National Academy, Missouri
• Idaho, Elmore County Domestic Violence Council
• Idaho Council on Domestic Violence and Victim Assistance Annual Two Days in June
• Illinois Prosecutor Based Victim Assistants Association
• Illinois Victim Assistance Academy
• Illinois, Midwestern TRIAD Conference and 13th Annual TRIAD Conference
• Indiana Partnership to Prevent Firearm Violence Annual Meeting
• Judicial College of Maryland Department of Judicial Education
• Kansas Annual Crime Victims’ Rights Conference
• Kansas Consumer Protection Conference, Office of the Attorney General
• Kentucky Victims Assistance Conference, Office of the Attorney General
• Las Vegas, NV Police Academy
• Louisiana District Attorneys Association 11th Annual Victim/Witness Assistance Seminar
• Louisiana Department of Justice and Louisiana District Attorney’s Association Criminal Justice Conference on Sexual Assault
• Judicial College of Maryland Department of Judicial Education
• Maryland Department of Juvenile and Family Services
• Maryland Judiciary – Magistrates
• Maryland State Attorney’s Association
• Massachusetts-Saint Anne’s Hospital’s DRIVE Program
• Michigan Safehouse for Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
• Michigan Victim Assistance Academy
• Missouri Organization for Victim Assistance (MOVA)
• Missouri Victim Assistance Network
• National Association of Divorce Professionals (NADP)
• New Jersey, Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office
• New Jersey Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Rutgers University
• New Jersey Victim Assistance Academy and Rutgers School of Social Work
• New York State MDT/CAC 1st Annual Summit
• Ohio Police Juvenile Officers Association
• Office for Victims of Crime (OVC TTAC)
• Office of State’s Attorneys’ Coordinator, Maryland
• Parents of Murdered Children National Conference, Orlando
• Smith County District Attorney’s Office Crime Victims’ Rights Conference, Texas
• State Attorney Office 13th Judicial Circuit, Florida
• Suffolk County Criminal Justice Addiction Workgroup Conference, New York
• Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs and W. TN Legal Services, Inc.
• Texas Department of Family Protective Services (DFPS)
• Texas Riogrande Legal Aid, Inc.
• Texas Domestic Violence Awareness Coalition
• Texas Crime Victim Clearinghouse
• Texas Domestic Violence Shelter-TRLA Cross Training
• Texas Facing Family Violence Conference
• Texas Victim Services Association
• U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
• Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families
• Wisconsin Victim/Witness Professionals Association
• Wyoming Victim Services
• Wyoming’s Joint Symposium on Children and Youth: Crimes Against Children & Children’s Justice

Invite Barbara to Speak at Your Event
By phone: 732-422-0400
By E-mail: BarbaraRubel@BarbaraRubel.com